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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
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BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE
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Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods.
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales.$19.00ISBN: 9781501134630Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Simon & Schuster - February 4th, 2020A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall$18.95ISBN: 9780393357790Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - March 10th, 2020“An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative.” —Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of Books
$28.99ISBN: 9781250177070Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: St. Martin's Press - February 11th, 2020In this captivating narrative, Chanel’s Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d’Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century.
$20.00ISBN: 9780802148339Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Grove Press - January 21st, 2020Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives.
$28.00ISBN: 9781524760595Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Tim Duggan Books - January 14th, 2020NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing
$11.95ISBN: 9780198840077Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Oxford University Press, USA - February 1st, 2020The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours.
$35.00ISBN: 9780691167121Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Princeton University Press - January 21st, 2020A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
$29.99ISBN: 9781465482471Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: DK - October 8th, 2019From the Roman conquest of 43 CE to the Norman conquest of 1066, and from the Elizabethan age to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, DK's History of Britain and Ireland traces the key events that have shaped Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the present day.
$26.95ISBN: 9780525658771Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Knopf - February 18th, 2020From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending—a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi.
